Jermaine T. Jackson
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Praying for a Red Light
Friday was the big day! I was so excited to be chosen as the keynote speaker for the Green Light Ceremony. Ever since I joined the Future Innovators of the World or FIW at the beginning of my junior year I knew there was something special about them. The ceremony was held every four years or so and it was the kind of class that made college admissions salivate. The keynote speaker for the Green Light Ceremony was selected by our teacher, Mr. Levitsky and was essentially the most advanced student in the class. Basically, the ceremony was a motivational pop-up sermon to test FIW members. It assessed their ability to speak in a public setting, draw a crowd, and hold their attention. It’s part exam, part social experiment, part worst nightmare for anyone like me who is petrified of speaking in front of strangers.
By Jermaine T. Jackson4 years ago in Humans
The box that sprouted from oak
The box that sprouted from oak By Jermaine T. Jackson Do you ever feel like the world is laughing at you? Like they’re all in on a joke you wouldn’t understand? It’s an odd feeling, somewhere between wanting to know and wishing you didn’t care. You tell yourself it’s all in your head, but isn’t everything? The hard truth was that none of it really mattered because their opinion of me was really my opinion of myself. All the voices, all the paranoia, all the burning ears combined to make me feel as if they noticed me.
By Jermaine T. Jackson5 years ago in Fiction
